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Mara, she's the one that started off as an actual regular character instead of a cosplay build that I wound up having more fun than I expected with

Thank you! I'll try to answer everything

Mara's playthrough is complete now; she defeated the promised consort, struck down the Elden Beast, and went on to boil the skies with the Frenzied Flame. She shall burn everything down to one, at least until Melina catches up with her and avenges Torrent

I definitely won't be cheesing any variant of Elemer because I just love fighting him! Parrying him is a blast because, as you say, he hits like a truck, but his moves are all very well telegraphed and his moveset basically requires you to stick close to him

For Cambrius I stuck with Ordovis' greatsword whenever I could, but I had the gargoyle's greatsword upgraded for when I needed something more versatile. It looks the part with the crucible knight gear, and sometimes a sword dealing holy damage is just absolutely not the tool for the job. Siluria's tree is excellent, but my first playthrough of ER was a str/fai build using spears and halberds so it felt like I was re-treading familiar ground a little much. Devonia's hammer, unfortunately, is way too big for me to like how it looks. Ordovis' sword served me excellently, though! The vortex ash and AotC: horns are outright comical against Malenia in particular

Gloam-Eye's name is indeed a reference to the Gloam-Eyed Queen, though I don't personally think that Melina is the GEQ, at least not as she was. I think it's more likely that Melina is some kind of re-making of her by Marika, or maybe a fragment of the GEQ in the same way that Millicent is to Malenia. I mostly think that for the actual GEQ to have as much agency as Melina does, limited as it is, would require Maliketh to have done a far worse job of killing her than his fearsome reputation would suggest and for Marika to be far more merciful than she usually is. At the same time, I didn't want to just make Melina because I wanted to play with all the black flame incantations and the black knife while keeping a theme intact (though I did keep the blade of calling ready too)

The messages I'd leave tried to be in character. The one at the start of Farum Azula, which people would only see right after burning the Erdtree, was something like "friend, O friend, still no regret." Another was in the office where you get the blade of calling, which was just "Ahh, seems familiar..." Naturally they all had to include gestures so that any readers could see her

While I'm not going to do it myself, that BBH kill was way too clever to just be a cheese. That was some shinobi shenanigans right there

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Ready to throw down some moves at the windmill party

Ooh, I shall be sure to try that out next time I'm on the game. She's currently wearing scaled greaves and gauntlets to bump her poise up enough that I can get away with not having a helmet on, which works well enough with the briar set for me (though it'd be nice if they were just a touch darker)

Did a bloodtinge, arcane, and quality build. Honestly, arcane is super fun!